Firefox 3.5 Treats Videos Like Web Pages

Demo by Mike Beltzner, director of Firefox, on how it uses an open source player to handle video.

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[darthirakli]

I hope this will help to get rid of crappy Flash sooner or later.

[dippydawg827]

its only bloated if you make it bloated. you can easily clear everything out that would make it slower. Its STILL better than IE, which isn't saying much, I know.

[MaryStewart]

i can't see this video in firefox, only msie! is there a missing runtime? i removed something i can';t seem to get back! any help?

[rossmart34]

LOL. My pc is mainly for benching and gaming. I can't even make a Word document o.0 Thanks for the heads up though. I leave coding to smart folks...and they leave the overclocking to us people at OCN.

[Pedro Devoto]

html5 ftw!

[kingdogol]

LOL, that's because the majority of sites on the web aren't currently coded in HTML 5....c'mon man, time to start researching and stop being a pc couch potato

[Cody Smith]

@batwingwashere

Why should we build all this stuff into a browser? I think it's b/c people are lazy, stupid, or apathetic. Sometimes, for people to notice or use something, you have to shove it in their face. Is FF now the best at ANYTHING other than browsing? Of course not. Never will be. Is the GMail web client as functional as Evolution or Outlook? Not even close. Can the Video/Audio sent through it ever look/sound as good as individual clients. Probably not. You see where I'm going w/ this.

[rossmart34]

Am I missing something here..? My FF doesn't do any of this with videos and it 3.5..?

[batwingwashere]

...I think that KDE developers made great step forward deciding it won't be the default web and file browser (although I think that both functionalities are still available).

One application can't be good in everything.

[batwingwashere]

You're right - it's 21st century, so why shouldn't we build fully functional media player into an browser (songbird just uses browser's engine). Why don't we get rid of any other application simply to do everything in a browser?

I know it'll come, but I hope to get as far from it as possible, for I would like my browser to be convenient, safe and efficient and not necessarily another all-in-one application...